HARD DRIVE

The Word

It's 1999. And this is more than a follow-up to the Peter Paracelsus and Also sprach Johann Paul II projects. It is an aural articulation of the concept of H-D (HARD DRIVE - Historical-Dialectical) techno, following the satanic techno of Paracelsus and the sacre-techno of Also sprach Johann Paul II.

So: who could represent the dialectical sequel to the Paracelsus and John Paul II concepts? Who can be a metaphor for the synthesis of both? Which concept/idea does in this day and age encompass and represent a synthesis of the good medicine and alchemy of Paraclesus and the militant, expansive spirituality of John Paul II? It had to be someone in the domain of the digital, also someone defined by the soft and the micro adjectives and the hard and driving ones. And the positive weltanschauung and bottom line instinct criteria had to be the collateral.

And more: it had to be someone whose target population will soon outnumber the global churchgoers of all denominations, and whose low-orbit satellite network will get us all a step closer to a potentially universal well-being; but also someone who has in his early days programmed the future to the tune of non-techno music and the hard & heavy thunder of a Porsche. Yes, it was rather inevitable. So let it be crystal clear: this is a dialectical inevitability as well as a tribute - maybe too obvious for some in the "West", but thoroughly logical and artistically valid for us here.

And where's that? It's not so much the "East"-an outdated and lazy concept - as in the intermittent, excitingly grey-area- the K's castle backyard known geographically as (South) Central Europe. The NSK turf.